The Bloggers With The Most To Say
Anonymous Blogging?
Quick question, more of a poll.
Do your friends and family read your blog? Or have you kept it to yourself and internet readers?
I have never invited people I know IRL because I do not want to have to apologize for hurt feelings, but am curious as to how others deal with it.
Do your friends and family read your blog? Or have you kept it to yourself and internet readers?
I have never invited people I know IRL because I do not want to have to apologize for hurt feelings, but am curious as to how others deal with it.
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Permalink Reply by Nadine on -
Friends read my blog. And I know my mum and sisters know OF it, but I'm not sure if they read it. I tend to keep my blog pretty friend/family/work safe. Friends, I don't want to upset. Family, I don't want to upset, and work, well working in IT, I'm fairly confident it'll one day come up at work that I blog and I don't want it to be an issue when it does. :)
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Permalink Reply by Cassiopeia on -
Only four friends know about my blog, and only 1 knows the URL... and that's mainly because he's my official photographer lol. My parents do know about the blog too, and I may one day let them read it (we're really close), but it's just not a pressing need. They aren't too fussed, but would probably enjoy being 'allowed' to see yet another part of my incredibly confusing - for them - life.
To be honest, my blog's not about my social circle, or anything particularly scandalous, so noone would be offended... I post a lot about myself which I suppose I worry on a primarily-fashion-and-style blog could seem a bit self-centred, but I also try to blog about relevant stuff only, like OCD and BDD, the strains of using a laptop over a desktop PC, the joys of watch-hunting... Silly and mundane, but apparently interesting to some lol. I guess it's a different part of me to that which my "real-life" friends see on a daily basis. It's about fashion, to talk to people with similar interests, which my friends don't really identify with... so there'd be no point! I have no wish for everyone to see how much I care about what I do style-wise or in the blogosphere on a daily basis. I see it as another circle of friends. One I don't necessarily encourage to mix with home friends, but it's not prohibited... I visit some of my blog friends and have a few on facebook, so I don't hide my blog, I just don't really mention it...
Xxxc
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Permalink Reply by Amanda on -
In high school and college I blogged un-anon, but none of my IRL friends knew of it (thank goodness, because it was very personal). In fact, I don't think anyone really knew about it, so it was a good emotional outlet. I dabbled in blogging on Myspace, but that created WAY too much drama with an ex boyfriend.
I joined wordpress over the summer and blogged anonymously, and didn't really enjoy it because I felt like I was hiding so much of myself. When I moved to California I started my current blog and gave out the address to all my friends and family because I thought it would be a great tool to keep them current on my life.
I know my dad and some of my family reads, as well as a couple of old coworkers. The link is on facebook and I'm sure people have checked it out from there, too. But I don't really blog about people in my life, they are more ancillary to what is going on around me. I suppose that's somewhat self-centered, but it is what it is. I don't want to create any drama with my blog, so I write with the assumption that everyone I know will be reading.
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Permalink Reply by Tayshia Starr on -
great topic! i actually have been struggling with this for a while, well ever since i started blogging last summer. when i would blog on my myspace it wasn't a big deal if my family/friends read those because i would write about things that were appropriate for them to read. at first i would post the link to my blog on my myspace and facebook as an open invitation for anyone to read but i had a situation where a friend read a blog and thought i was talking about them and it caused some static, so now i have a disclaimer on my blog letting people from my personal life know the deal..and since then i haven't had any problems. after that i took my links down but i recently made my blog public to anyone who stumbles across my site and so far to the best of my knowledge no family or friends have found it.
my feelings now are basically that if they do find my blog and read something then oh well, its my blog and its my feelings. we are all human and we deal with emotions differently and blogging works for me, which is why i don't give my family/friends the link to my blog but i don't hide it either...
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Permalink Reply by Fidgeting Gidget on -
I started my first blog for friends and fam since I live far away from them, but recently started my other blog as a way to vent and say stuff about people that might hurt their feelings. Plus, it's fun being anonymous and making up aliases. I may ease up a bit eventually, and if someone really wanted to find my anon blog they probably could. Only one friend knows about it and the only reason I told her is because I know she doesn't read my friends/fam blog, so she was safe...I'm not good at keeping secrets.
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Permalink Reply by Rajtilak Bhattacharjee on
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I am a pro blogger, and everyone including my family, friends, colleagues have always been very supportive about my blog.
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Permalink Reply by Mara on -
I was sort of reluctant to tell my friends about my blog, and I'm not exactly sure why. It's not about my personal life, but it still took me awhile to feel comfortable asking people I know to read it, because 1) they would find out what an enormous dork I am and 2) they may mock me relentlessly. In the end though, I invited many of them to read but I still don't have my name attached to it.
As for my parents, my dad told me on the phone that he ran into an old high school friend of mine at Starbucks who was going on and on about how she reads my blog all the time. I don't know what it was, but I felt strangely violated by that. I guess for me a little bit of distance can be important. I think it helps keep my blogging un-self conscious knowing that my mom isn't telling all of her friends about it at Book Club or Mah Jong night for them to judge.
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Permalink Reply by Monique on -
My blog is very, very public. I know that most of my real life friends, {and an aunt} reads my blog on a regular basis. Everyone close to me knows that I blog, and how I blog - which is why most of my family chooses not to read it. If they have a problem with anything I say- That's just too bad for them. I wouldn't tell them what not to write about in their journals. Though, I do respect their privacy, and unless it concerns me, I won't write in detail, or sometimes even mention, any of my family's personal issues. And if ever I need to, for whatever reason, I ask first. I respect them, I just won't sugar coat some of the things I have to say.
I've only had one problem with it, but that was years ago.
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Permalink Reply by Dash on -
i"ve had both sides of the coin. while i'm travelling everyone knows the address.. but i really prefer having my anonymous one, i can really work through my thoughts and feelings, and its so much better than a boring old journal... but its also good to be able to share on the open one things with my frieends and family when i am away.
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Permalink Reply by Erin on -
Some of my friends read my blog, but for the most part, I'm anonymous. I don't use a real name, I don't post pictures, none of that. Though, if someone who knew me randomly stumbled upon my blog, they would have NO doubt it was mine.
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Permalink Reply by Save-a-shopaholic on -
I’m glad I’m not the only one going back and forth about this! None of my friends or family know about my blog. Well all except my GF, and two of my BFFs. My girlfriend doesn’t read it… she probably doesn’t even remember the url. And I talk to two of my best friends almost everyday so it was impossible to keep it from them. I tell them everything anyways. I really want to tell my Mom and sister, because we are all really close, but I think they would die if they saw how much debt I really have. And that is the whole reason I started writing to begin with!
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Permalink Reply by Krys on -
I haven't gone out of my way to invite "real life" people to read my blog, but for awhile it was posted to my Facebook, and now it's linked from my Twitter, which some real life people read.
My family doesn't read it, though, and I'd really prefer to keep it that way for now, but I also wouldn't have a huge problem if they stumbled upon it. I write everything assuming they could find it somehow, so it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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